Hornsea / Hornesse

There is an entry for Hornsea [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA2047/hornsea/] [accessed 20 July 2014], and it reports a priest and a church in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's October 1841 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is Early English, of octagonal form, each face pannelled with lancet arches, on an octagonal stem, surrounded by four baluster legs of wood (probably replacing the original ones), and upon a square basement" [Butler's (ibid.) annotation here reads: "The wooden legs were replaced by an octagonal shaft of stone, provided by Scott" [i.e., Sir George Gilbert Scott who directed the 1866-7 renovation of the church]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of Early-English baptismal font. In Pevsner & Neave (1995): "Octagonal, of the familiar Purbeck-marble type of the C13. Each side has two shallow blank pointed arches. On a Victorian base." The font is illustrated in the newsletter of the Humber Archaeology Partnership (issue 4, August 2001, p. 4) [PDF version at www.hullcc.gov.uk]: it consists of a large basin mounted on a central shaft and several [6?] outer colonnettes; it is raised on a two-step plinth, and is located at the end of the nave, near the western entrance. The Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 7, 2002) notes: "There was a church at Hornsea in 1086. [...] The font is 13th-century." [cf. Index entry for Goxhill for a font of unknown origin that was found in a garden at Hornsea and later moved to Goxhill church]